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TIL, when Green day singer Billie Joe Armstrong’s father died when he was a child. He ran home from the funeral and locked himself in his room. When his mother followed him home and asked him to come out. He told her to “wake me up when september ends.”

4knpb TIL that while filming The Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger went into a LA restaurant in battle-damaged Terminator makeup. He asked for a table in character and since no one knew who the Terminator was yet, the host and everyone in the restaurant started freaking out, screaming, and quickly left
J1j61 TIL A day on Venus lasts longer than a year. Venus rotates only once in 243 Earth days, and its year is 225 Earth-days long. And, it rotates east to west, the opposite of Earth. So on Venus, the sun rises in the west and sets in the east.
lZv1 TIL Shaquille O'Neal is a sworn in Miami Beach police officer and has arrested two men for aggravated assault. He is compensated with a $1 a year salary.
Q5wX TIL of a mother who mistakenly sent a female stripper to a high school classroom. The mother meant to send a “Gorilla-Gram” to her son for his birthday. The school officials did nothing and the woman proceeded to strip for the class.
WkPYB TIL it has been established so far that 928 prisoners attempted to escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp complex (878 men and 50 women). For 196 prisoners the escape finished with success and the majority of them lived to see the end of the war.